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Surviving Reality

April 2, 2001 – 9:24 am

Simon Cooper Reality TV is Social Life Minus the Messy Social Aspect

Posted in against the current | Also tagged detention centres, entertainment, exploitation, game shows, illegal immigrants, indigenous people, John Morse, managerialism, media, men's movements, reality TV, Simon Cooper, spectacle, tourism, voyeurism | Comments (0)

This is the Night, Remembered if Outlived

April 2, 2001 – 9:23 am

Guy Rundle: Contemporary Society and the Depression ‘Epidemic’

Posted in features | Also tagged Al Gore, alienation, anti-depressant medication, anxiety, authenticity, cognitive-behavioural psychotherapy (CBT), depression, Guy Rundle, human capital management, hyperindividualism, instrumental rationality, mental health, pharmaceutical corporations, poverty, psychiatry, psychotherapy, R.D. Laing, schizophrenia, scientific world view, serotonin, side effects, social control, social exclusion, social isolation, social meaning, stress, suicide, Tony Blair, withdrawal | Comments (0)

After Consumerism: Through a Glass, Darkly

April 2, 2001 – 9:18 am

The market may have a terrible precariousness, but at the same time it is being constantly readjusted and reproduced.

Posted in editorial | Also tagged Boris Frankel, consumerism, Guy Rundle, Japan, John Hinkson, Matthew Ryan, refugee, Simon Cooper | Comments (0)

Consuming Social Justice

February 2, 2001 – 9:07 am

This article attempts to move beyond totalising cynicism, as well as unbridled optimism, towards a more nuanced understanding of fair trade. I explore the contradictions and paradoxes of using consumer practices to build bridges of socio-economic solidarity across core and periphery. More specifically, I want to determine how fair-trade discourse constructs understandings of development, consumerism, and global justice.

Posted in features | Also tagged alternative consumption, alternative trade organisations (ATOs), collective action, Commerce Clause of the US Constitution, commodity fetishism, consumerism, corporate power, de-linking from the global economy, debt crisis, democracy, development, economic exploitation, environmentally friendly, ethical consumption, ethical mutual funds, fair trade, Fair Trade Federation, First World, Fourth World, global economy, global inequality, global justice, globalisation, identity construction, imperialism, indigenous right, individuality, International Federation for Alternative Trade (IFAT), Joseé Johnston, lifestyle politics, living wage, local self-sufficiency, Margaret Thatcher, market theory, marketing, micro-lifestyle politics, Multilateral Agreement on Investment, natural resources, neo-colonialism, neo-imperialism, North American Free Trade Agreement, over-consumption, public sphere, rational consumer, Ronald Reagan, San Francisco resolution, social inequality, sustainability, sustainable development, sustainable environmental practices, sweatshop labour, Third World, trade advantages, underdevelopment, workers’ co-operatives | Comments (0)

Capital’s First International?

June 2, 2000 – 4:41 pm

James Goodman The World Economic Forum is Coming to Town

Posted in against the current | Also tagged academia, Al Gore, Asia, Bill Clinton, Chief Executives, class, commodification, corporate responsibility, democracy, economic research, environmentalism, executive salaries, George Soros, global inequality, globalisation, International Monetary Fund (IMF), James Goodman, Kofi Annan, market fundamentalism, media, neo-liberalism, non-government organisations (NGO), Russia, social dislocation, sustainability, Switzerland, Ted Turner, Tony Blair, trade unions, transnational corporations, United Nations (UN), United States, World Economic Forum (WEF) | Comments (0)

From Colony to Global Prize

June 2, 2000 – 4:38 pm

George Aditjondro Timor Loro Sa’e Under a New Wave of Economic Transformation

Posted in features | Also tagged Africa, agrarian reform, agriculture, aid workers, annexation, Asia, Australian Defence Forces, banking, Cambodia, cartel, Catholicism, coffee, coffee plantations, collaboration, colonialism, construction, corruption, deportation, East Timor, East Timor independence, economy, energy management, environmental policy, environmentalists, fertility control techniques, forced deportation, genocide, George Aditjondro, grants, guerillas, health workers, hotels, human rights violations, humanitarian aid, indigenous people, Indonesia, inequality, information technology, International Monetary Fund (IMF), investment, Japan, land appropriation, loans, Malaysia, militia, mining, monopoly, nationalism, NGO, Nobel Prize, North Korea, Northern Territory, oil, oligopoly, peacekeeping, political elite, political prisoners, Portugal, post-colonial states, prostitution, protesters, reconstruction, referendum, self-determination, Singapore, South Korea, squatters, state property, Suharto, Taiwan, teachers, telecommunication, Timor, tourism, trade unions, United Nations (UN), United States, uranium, West Papua, Western Australia, World Bank, Xanana Gusmao | Comments (0)

Mapping the Political Terrain

April 2, 2000 – 4:27 pm

George Aditjondro Post-Referendum Timor Loro Sa’e

Posted in features | Also tagged Africa, agrarian reform, alienation, Ana Pessoa Pinto, Australian Defence Forces, Australian Democratic Socialist Party (DSP), authoritarianism, autocratic rule, border dispute, Brazil, Catholicism, civil disobedience, civilian military, co-operatives, coffee, coffee growers, coffee plantations, colonialism, colonisation, customary laws, democracy, democratic state, East Timor, East Timor independence, farms, feminist, food distribution, foreign aid agencies, foreign nationals, fund-raising, George Aditjondro, Ghana, guerilla warfare, Guinea-Konakry, human rights, human rights organisations, human rights violations, independence, Indonesia, Indonesian People’s Democratic Party (PRD), InterFET (International Forces for East Timor), international aid, international aid organisations, International Student Peace Prize, James Dunn, Java, Jose Alexandre Gusmao, Jose Ramos-Horta, Klaus Rohland, Left, liberal democracy, liberation movements, Major-General Peter Cosgrove, Manuel Pinto da Costa, Maria Olandina F.C. Alves-Cairo, Mario Carrascalao, Mario Viegas Carrascalao, Marxist-Leninist, massacre, Maubere, media, military, militia terror, minimum wage, Mozambique, Namibia, Nino Vieira, Norway, paramilitary, parliamentary elections, Philippines, political independence, Portugal, Protestants, reconstruction, referendum, refugees, relief, Richard Holbrooke, Sam Nujoma, sanitation, Sao Tome and Principe, security, Sergio Vieira de Mello, single-party states, Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana, socialism, Socialist International, South Africa, student resistance, Suharto, Sukarno, sustainability, Sydney, Taur Matan Ruak, terror, Timor, UN Temporary Authority of East Timor (UNTAET), United Nations, United States, women's shelter, World Bank, World Vision, Xanana Gusmao | Comments (0)

Uncanny Reflection – The Destruction of Chechnya

December 2, 1999 – 6:54 am

NATO’s bombing of Serbian forces and Russia’s action in Chechnya have some chilling similarities writes Simon Cooper

Posted in against the current | Also tagged Al Gore, Asia, Balkans, Bill Clinton, bomb attacks, Boris Yeltsin, Britain, Caucasus, Chechen republic, Chechnya, economic sanctions, Europe, financial crisis, fundamentalist Islam, gas, global economy, Grozny, humanitarian aid, Indonesia, information war, international markets, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Islam, kidnapping, Kosovo, loan defaults, Madeline Allbright, media, money-laundering, Muslim, natural resources, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), oil, oil & gas reserves, Patrick Cockburn, Red Cross, retaliation, Rupert Cornwall, Russia, Serbia, Simon Cooper, terrorism, Tony Blair, United States, USSR, Vladimir Putin, Zygmunt Bauman | Comments (0)

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